 let's pray. Father, we just want to thank you. We thank you that you called us to freedom. We thank you, Lord, for the liberty that we have in you. And Master, we thank you, Lord, that we can live for you. We can live, Lord, even as you live in and through us, Lord. And Father God, even as today we look at, we celebrate the Republic Day of our nation, Lord of India. Father God, we pray, Lord, that as a nation, Lord, we pray for our nation, we pray for the freedom that we have, Lord, through the Constitution. And I just pray that every leader, every civil servant, Lord, will be every policy maker. Father God will be mindful of that. And I just, I pray, Lord, for every, every state, for every Lord minister, for the people at the central, Lord, at the cabinet, and Lord, all those who are given this great awesome responsibility and privilege, Lord, of leading this nation. Lord, we pray for wisdom for the leaders. Lord, we pray, Lord, that they will not fall down, God, under the weight of corruption or under the weight of immorality. But Lord, I pray that you will enable them to make righteous policies, Lord, the right ones, God. And I just pray that you will enable them to stand for righteousness and justice and uphold freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, all aspects, Lord. I pray that they will uphold the Constitution. And we come against every work of the enemy, every assignment of the enemy in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, I pray that let righteousness flow like a mighty river, God, right through the length and breadth of our nation, Lord. And we pray, Father God, for your church to rise up, Lord, and take its rightful place of authority with love and compassion and your wisdom, Lord, and to share the life-changing message of the gospel. And let many lives be touched, let many destinies be changed, Lord. Yes, Lord, we commit our nation into your mighty hands. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Okay. Okay, so just to keep us all informed, I've got some of you. I've got the draft from some of you like Karnan Kiran, Prince Aaron, and Thomas. I've got the draft, but I've not got it from the others. Any difficulty, said Dave Neelam, because this is a very important draft, this one-page submission, and about your, you know, the research title and explaining how you want to go about it. This submission is important, and so also all the other submissions. So we need to stick to the date, right? So it was supposed to come in yesterday, I think, right? And I've still not got that. So yeah, so that I really want you guys to take note of that and finish it. So from the next submission onwards, there will be negative marking. Okay, if it's not on time, you know, you will lose marks. This is the first one, first submission, one-page summary. So, you know, I just want to just ensure that you submit it today. Yeah, so Dave, I see your message. So will you be able to send it by this evening? Because it's a one-page thing. If you can and sit, you also sit. If you can send it by this evening, that'll be good, because the sooner you send it, the sooner you can start with the task, start with the research. Okay. So let me, I went through some of your submissions, and I see that, you know, you need to be a little more specific about what you want to do. Okay, so and also be, you know, your title would require some change. Okay, because you're doing a research and some of your titles would still need to be changed. It needs to clarify what exactly you are doing, right? What is the nature of the research? Because like Kandan, for example, Kandan, your, the title of your research paper says, Gospel Between Panias, you know, so we can't use that as a title. It has to say something specific about what is it that you want to do with the, you know, with the Paniya tribe. And so you need to rework that. Then Kiran, your title, your work, is the scope is very, very vast. Okay, like your title, for example, let me just read it out. It says, How can I reach the city, nation and nations with the Gospel? Right, so unless it's, you know, unless you've figured it out, you've thought it out, now this is going to be like a three month thing, right? Three months now, we're in Jan, end of Jan, Feb, March, and by April, mid-April 12th of April, around that time, you need to submit that final thing, final report. So here, if you look at it, I don't know, I don't know if you've thought about this, you know, how does one reach the city, the nation and the nations with the Gospel? So, you know, you still have some time to, you know, think about the title, is that what you want to do. So, yeah, so Kiran, can you just, maybe we can just discuss this in today's class, you know, about each of your titles, you know, so that way it'll help clarify for others also and for you. So, yeah, so first maybe we can ask Kiran, yeah, Kiran, if you can clarify what is, what exactly, I read the title, but if you can explain how you want to go about this, what you want to do, then, you know, we'll bring in some clarity, yeah, go ahead Kiran. Okay, so the title I thought I have to change a little bit, and the topic is the Gospel I want to like share the research paper through. I want to write the share Gospel to city and work within the leaders and pastors. Yeah, I understand that. So, this is for the leaders and pastors, some kind of a strategy that you want to think of. Yeah, but what is it, have you, is there something that you have, like what is it that you'd like to share, that you'd like to bring to the pastors? It's like, little bit like changing something, like revival, little bit like that we can say, and some churches they don't, they're, they're believers, they don't know about Holy Spirit and supernatural work is still is happening before the God with the Moses, like that today is also God is working within a believer, pastors and leaders, but today's time, some some church and some the believers and they, they don't know about that and they simply, they simply they just moving, just moving. So, so your, so this what your hypothesis, I mean this hypothesis in a sense, this, this whatever you are shared right now is based on some observation, right? You observed, you've seen, right? Yes. No, now where have you seen this? Kiran, like, is it in your, in your home church? Is it in, you know, based on what assumptions, you know, it based on what observations have you come to this conclusion that, you know, this is how it's done, right? So, is it in, is it in Kolthita? No, sir, I got some just this thing. Yeah, it's in in city, our city, sir. I have seen many times in many churches, so some kind of thing it came in my mind, sir. Okay, then since you observed that, see, because in your research, you will have to, you know, mention like everything has to be, has to have some kind of data or proof like when you say, okay, this is what is happening in the world, you will have to present some information, okay, based on what you've seen, based on what you've studied about, based on, you know, whatever articles you have read and also, you know, mentioned that, right? So, so that is something that you need to do to say that, okay, this is the condition, okay? So this is what is happening in, in the world right now, or even when you're saying the world, you know, that's why I said, you know, if you're talking about how to take it to the nations, you need to, you know, you're actually bringing in the solution, right? You're bringing in something saying, okay, this is a problem. It's not happening in the right way. Now, I want to suggest from scripture, you know, this is, this could be an effective way or this is a better way, right? So for you to say that something is not happening correctly, or something is not happening in the right manner, you would have to, you know, you would have to present some facts, right? So this is what I've observed, okay, fine. Even that has to be a little more specific, right? I've observed maybe for so many years, or I've been part of this church or this particular denomination, it's done this way, because even in Kolkata, you know, there could be many other churches or many other house fellowships who are, you know, whom we may not know of who are actually doing a good job, you know, in reaching a certain group of people, and maybe they are, you know, they are moving in signs and wonders and miracles and supernatural and, which we may not know of, right? So that is why, you know, you need to be a little more specific and say, okay, in this village or in this city, this is what I have observed over the years, or in this city and village, after I, you know, got in touch with these pastors or spoke, after I spoke to some of the, you know, leaders, I see that this is the condition, or, you know, I've read about, I've read some of these articles, I've researched some of, you know, in, I've done a research on the church in, you know, in Kolkata, and this is what I've found out. These are the number of churches which are here. You see the kind of, you know, if you go into the specifics, in order to say that this is an issue, this is a problem, you'll have to actually go a little deeper and present it. But otherwise, you know, we might ask a question like, okay, so how many churches did you check? So when you say the church in Kolkata has a problem, or if you say the church at large has a problem, so based on what do you say that, right? So that could be a question. And, you know, you need to have some facts. So that's why I'm saying, you know, it's, it'll be good if you can define the scope. Okay, now we have about three months. So can you take your, maybe your city or a certain denomination or, you know, a certain geographical territory and, and say, okay, this, these people or these churches can do a better job because first of all, you need to actually see what is it that they're doing? How is it that they're doing and see, okay, are they, is there evangelism, is there outreach? Or are they just coming and meeting every Sunday and going, you know, because there could be many churches, right? There could be several denominations, they could be like, you have the AG, you have the CNI, you have the Baptist, Presbyterian Methodists, all these, and they all have their unique way of, you know, doing things, maybe some, some may not do certain things, which the other denominations are doing. So it would help to find out and then present your case. Now, this information you can find out either through the search, you know, you can go to their website and then you can see, okay, this is what this church is doing. This is what these churches are doing. I see that there is no mention of, you know, evangelism, there's no mention of sharing the gospel. There's nothing like that at all. So, or maybe you can watch the live stream, now all the services are online, you can watch the online service and see what is it that they are, you know, are they doing anything online to reach the gospel? What does the website say? So you can find out the information and then say, okay, this is what is happening. It's more of theory and not practice and this is what we need to do. You know, that would be a research, right? And that would be something when you're presenting. It would be with facts, it would be with, it'll be very relevant and it'll be a real place, right? And it'll be something that's authentic and real and, you know, something that will help solve also, you know, whatever recommendations you bring in from the word, from the book of Acts like you mentioned, and it'll make a big difference. So that is the direction that I, you know, suggesting. Okay, so based on that, your title also changed, right? Okay, so you work on that. Okay, so Kiran, I'm sorry, not Kiran, Kannan, Gospel Between Panias, right? So that title can, you can change it, you know, based on what we are going to, what you are going to do. You mentioned that you want to research about this particular community and find out what is the work there. So you made a statement saying, okay, we have gospel reach, but not, there's still many more people who don't even know about the lot, right? So you can, you've also, it's good that you mentioned the towns, you've mentioned about Arthipali and Gurdulur and all these things. And so so you can visit it, you can check. But all you need to do is, you know, you can check about, you can change the title, you can say a study on this particular group called this thing, I mean, this Panias and how, what they're doing in order to bring, bring about change or in what, what the church is doing, how is, how are the churches reaching out to that group? So you can talk about that. And of course you can talk about their practices, you can talk about what is their worldview, right? You can talk about their economic status, you can talk about what kind of work do they do? You know, all this can come in the research, you can say, these are, this is how, you know, this is, they've been here for these many years. You can go back into the, you know, historical data or reports there and say, these are the kind of people, these are the practices. This is their worldview. And these are some of the challenges they face. And, you know, some of them might communally, you know, community-wise, sorry, community-wise, there could be certain challenges, certain, certain, certain things that as a community that they're facing, you know, like, maybe the men are not working or the men are drinking or, you know, even otherwise, maybe the women have certain kind of challenges, issues. So, you know, you can talk about that. And you can talk about, okay, who are the people who are actually doing commendable work? When did the work actually start? Who are the people who are doing the work? What kind of work are they doing? And then you find the gap, okay. So this is, this is what they're doing. And maybe you can even think about, you can even, you know, in your observation, in your study, you see that, okay, this is what they're doing, but then it is only going so far. What is missing is this, right? You can bring in that solution, that finding, and so that would be, so your title would be like a study on, you know, such and such a community and etc. Yeah. Yeah. And study on Paneers, but it needs to be, yeah, I see your comment here saying, if you change my title, study on Paneers. But study on Paneers is just one part of it, right? What is it that you want to do? Think about it. I don't want to suggest anything now, but you think about it, take time, and then, you know, you can make the change to the title, right? Okay. So then we have, yeah. So Aaron, you said, okay, leadership and authority in the church, again, that title doesn't say much about what kind of church, where, right, and what the research is about. So that would be something that you need to think about, right? You said leadership and authority in the church. Now, which church is it? The global church? And when I go through the draft, I see that it's typically about, you know, in the area, in wherever you are, and it's talking about some of them, some of the leaders, right? So I know you've also mentioned that you want to kind of look into their life stories. So the thing is, yeah, it'll be good to mention that, you know, leadership and authority is what you said, okay, leadership and authority in the church. Now, so that's the title will can be a little misleading, right? Because it says leadership and authority in the church. So you need to say, okay, in the church, in, you know, in Kohima or in, you know, or in what kind of church also, you know, I'm sure that specifically you're talking about this particular church, or is it something that you observed in, you know, all the other churches also, some of the other tribes and other churches, and is it a Presbyterian church, is it an independent, you know, something like that. I'm just giving you some ideas. So no problem. So you're able to hear what I'm saying. Are you able to, yeah, okay, fine. So these are some things that you need to think about, okay, so specifically, so you write down, okay, what is it, you're gonna, no problem, you just write down, okay, what is it that you want to do actually, you want to find out about the leaders and the kind of lives that they led. Now, how many leaders are there? You know, if it's going to be just one leader, then you can say, okay, I want to, you know, look into this life, you know, ministry, entire thing, you know, right from how they started of this particular leader, or if it's going to be a group of leaders, okay, you study that, and you're saying, okay, this is, this is how they live their lives. This is how they, you know, carried about their leadership role. And this is the authority that they, you know, whatever they did with that authority, maybe you're going to talk about the good, bad, and the ugly, you know, maybe they abused the authority, maybe they did not, they used to rightly, so you can talk about that. And so, where are you going with that, you know? So, you think about, okay, now I've talked about that, but what is it that you want to, you know, bring to the present time, if you add that, it'll be good. So, in the present time, if you see these things are missing, that also, you need to give some facts, you need to give some evidence, right? Because you just can't say, okay, this is missing in the church. Because then the question is, how can you say that? Or based on what are you making that statement? How do you say that? Is it because somebody told you, or, you know, as friends, maybe you're discussing, and somebody just mentioned, hey, you know, the church is bad, or the church, this church, so you need to be able to present, okay, find out and say, okay, these are some things happening, these are real life issues, some challenges. You don't have to mention names if it's something that's sensitive, but you can definitely narrate, you know, these are things that have happened, that's happening, and so they need to, you know, whatever change that needs to happen, you can mention that and say, you know, these are people who live their lives like this, even with limitations, so you can kind of, you know, bring that to a close. Yeah, so that would have a little more a little more, a little more meat to the whole thing, you know, rather than just the life study, you know, if you're studying the life, okay, that also you need to, what, you know, what is it that you're going to look at? A testimony, are there some real life instances that we can learn from? And when did it happen? How did it happen? How do they handle it? So these are, you know, these are, this is information that you need to find out, right, and you mentioned how you're going to do that. You mentioned that you're going to be talking to them, talking to the families, talking to their grandchildren, right, which is good. Also, yeah, so you, you talked about that. And also your own personal experience, right, that you've been serving. So you're going to be talking about that also. So hopefully, those interactions, etc. So, you know, so leadership and authority in the church doesn't talk about all that, you know, all that research, right. So you need to change it. What is it about that? Is it about a particular time that you're talking about in the 60s or, you know, and what church? That also you need to be specific. We can say, okay, this happened here, and then this is something that all of us can learn from. Something on those lines is also good, right. Okay, then we have, okay, so Prince, Prince talked about, again, something similar to what Kannon is doing. It's about a group of, you know, group of people. So you mentioned, okay, what religion, culture, practices, what they believe, how they differ. Okay, and oh, that's good. By the time of the British period, you're going to talk about that also. So, okay, so that's, that's good, Prince. So interviews, websites, like who, how the gospel reached them. Okay, so you can talk about that also. So, and the life of a, you know, a believer who is from this particular, you know, particular tribe. How's it? Okay. So, so, so you see if that title can be, you know, improved upon the Christian life of Santal is, yeah, it's okay. But you see how you can improve upon that. And, you know, that'll be helpful, Prince. But you're, you know, how you're going to do that, and all that is good. Okay, so let's look at, I think Thomas, just Thomas, if I remember, it's talking about revival in Karnataka. Right, so, so you can, you can do a, you can say a study on like past revivals or something like that in Karnataka, because you're, you know, you're talking about the past, or even like revival in Karnataka seems to be okay. But you are also, how can, you know, what is going to happen, you know, something of that sort is also what you're going to be presenting, right? How can we bring about, so you're going into the past, you're seeing what are the moves of God, and you also mentioned about somebody from, you know, one of your relatives, okay, from the traditional church, and how they accepted Christ, et cetera, what happened, so you're going to be looking, looking into that, so that is good. Yeah, so yeah, so, so you're saying Karnataka, so which will, you know, you can probably look at, okay, what are the, you know, what are the districts, you know, you take a map, what are the districts in Karnataka, how, you know, how is the, and you can study about revival, but that's going to be a lot of information, but there is information, I'm sure, about, you know, about the churches, about the missionary work, and I'm sure libraries, if you have access to libraries in some online library, or even like SCIACS and SABC, they might have books, I'm not sure, they might have something, some information on this, which I don't know if you have access to it, but yeah, it's worth trying, maybe you can even check our own, you know, church office library, and see if there's any information about past moves of God, and particularly in Karnataka, so yeah, so that would be the way to go about it, and maybe about something about the present and future, if you present it will be good, you know, what do they do, or when the move of God was happening, I know we know that, you know, as we've studied the Bibles and visitations, we know that the move of God is sovereign, right, but we know that God just pours out his spirit, but we also see that the church, the body of believers, you know, continue to hunger and thirst for revival, they prayed, and in some cases, they prayed for decades, they prayed for a century even, and like we, when we, you know, we study about the Shillong, what happened in Shillong, we see that the church was actually, you know, hungering and thirsting for the presence of God, for the outpouring of God, and they would pray the young and old, and even though they didn't, you know, they didn't see anything happening during their lifetime, they continued to pray, they continued to seek God, and all that investing and, you know, sowing and prayer really paved the path for, you know, for that revival that the church experienced, so, and something on those lines, and you know, how to really sustain that move of God in the churches, right? So, it's a lot of work, Thomas, just wanted to thank you that, a lot of reading, a lot of work, but I'm sure you can do that, right? Okay, so, so Sid, sorry Thomas, sorry. That's true, it's small, but it has a lot of research and studies of things and all, and I have a lot of work, I guess, when I started only, I understood. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, so, yeah, so you break it down, break the entire straight into different, you know, districts, and that'll be, that'll actually give you some more focus. You can, you know, go into each district, what is happening in each district, and then you can find, get some information on it, yeah. Because each, each geographical territory will also have its own, you know, challenges. Yeah, some will be lukewarm, maybe like, I don't know, maybe a city church, you know, maybe, I'm just, you know, assuming some lukewarmness is not there, they are really hungry, so we can, yeah, look into that. Okay, so fine, so, so, they've said, Neelam, by end of day, please send it, you can either upload it on the stream, like what Thomas did, or you can email it to me, I think, all of you have my email ID, jekma.isia, at apcwo.org, so you can either email me or uploading it, uploading it on the stream is fine, so those of you who are watching e-learning, I think the best is to just email me, and I'll, I'll receive it. Right, okay, so continue to work on this, right, and also one last thing before we, before you wind up, is that you work on how to express what you're thinking in writing, right, whatever you're observing, how, how can you, you know, express it effectively in words when you're writing, right, so, like when you spoke, okay, you explained, and, and when you're writing it, it needs to be without error, you know, without grammatically mistakes, and, and understand, you know, the challenges, language challenges, but, but you need to work on it, right, and, you know, reading the draft, I saw that, okay, these are some challenges, so it's not that it cannot be overcome, but you need to work on it, okay, so, so try writing a page every day about something you've written, and something you've read, okay, maybe you, you, you've done your quiet time, and you read through a portion of scripture, and maybe there were some things that, you know, you learned from it, or, you know, understood, and it can even be, you know, what we are studying in Galatians, Galatians chapter one, okay, you went through it, and you understood some things, you know, whatever you understood, so those five or six points that you learned, try writing it down, you know, explaining it, right, and of course you're doing it in English, and it could be challenging for some, but try doing that, okay, now, and how are you going to explain it clearly, how are you going to explain it, you know, without any error, so you might have to, you know, do a couple of drafts, right, write it once, see how does it look, you know, have I explained it well, do I understand it, will others who read understand it, you know, are those points explained very well, and you, you know, re-write it, which are the places that I can change, so this will be a very useful exercise for you to get into the habit of expressing yourself in writing, okay, because you'll need it, and you do the research, maybe someone, you know, maybe you have a questionnaire, and you're putting the data together, and then you come to a conclusion, you need to express that, right, this is what I found out, and this is what, you know, this is the conclusion that I've reached, or this is the recommendation, you need to be able to express that, right, in writing, so this will be a good exercise, if you do this every day, right, you're reading the Bible every day, after reading, you know, take 10 minutes, now it might be longer, it might, you might need maybe 20 minutes, 30 minutes to actually write it down, right, so check that out, okay, and like I said, if when you start writing the report, Grammarly is a good tool to use, please check that out online, it's a, there is a free, you know, free, it's a free tool, but some of these features you need to, you know, you might have to pay for it, but then the free thing is itself is okay, you can use that, and it will suggest corrections, grammatical errors, so you learn to, you know, it's online, if you're writing it online, if you're writing, you know, on your, using your computer on a word doc, this will be helpful, okay, so work at it, so that you can get better at it, and it will be useful for you to, when you present and submit your project report, okay, okay, so next class we will, let's discuss further about your titles, about your, you know, about your work, and see where, you know, where it's heading, and probably next class we will also try to do some exercises, you know, for some of you who were able to write well, maybe it's, you know, it'll be a time for you to even get better at it, yeah, we'll see how we can do, maybe we'll watch a video, and you have to write some observations about it, okay, so next class we'll try that out, okay, so we'll stop here, okay, thank you guys, so yeah, have a wonderful Republic Day, pray for the country, and yeah, let's do that, okay, right, thank you, take care, no bless, goodbye.